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USA TodayRepublican Mitt Romney is the target of the first presidential campaign ad launched by a Democratic group with strong ties to President Obama, stressing the GOP's stance on revamping Medicare.
Priorities USA Action, headed by former Obama press aide Bill Burton and Clinton strategist Paul Begala, will be running the spot on TV in South Carolina as Romney, a top contender for the GOP nomination, makes his first campaign swing this weekend in the key presidential state. Romney's campaign denounced the ad as a "smear campaign."
Medicare is already emerging as a hot topic of the 2012 election season, as Democrats try to link GOP candidates from the White House to Congress to a plan by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan to convert the popular health insurance program for seniors into a voucher system.
The ad seeks to tie Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, with presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, who has been backpedaling this week from his remarks that Ryan's Medicare plan is "radical" and "right-wing social engineering." It also mentions Ryan and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who criticized Gingrich for undermining Ryan with his Medicare remarks.
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Amazing! Romney denounces the ad as a "smear campaign," but does not confirm or deny whether Romney supports the Ryan voucher plan. Instead, the corporate media allows Romney to skate on by with comments like he supports the goals of the Ryan plan. Of course, as Roger Ailes' annointed, Fox News will give him a free pass.